Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-02-12
like l do cold Irish potatoes. . An
thony is puzzling his brains to find out
what she meant.
Still Hold Their own.

IL. w. Hayes, captain; j. L Hand,
secretary; Chas. Robinson, treasurer;
Hagler, North, French, Harris, Brown
and Clark.
1t is said that the Fearless boys are
the champions of the Old North State.
In Massachusetts are 32 cooperative
banks.
There are 900 Knights Of Labor
in Georgia. A year ago there were
900.
The factory girls of Lowell, Mass,
contributed 81, 900 to the Charleston
fund.
Il. McKenna, Esq, a stoye-molder
by trade, is the Democratic candidate
for mayor of Pittsburg.
The Labor Organizer, Kansas City,
Mo-, announces that it will hereafter
be published under cooperative
control.
A man who has been seven years in
Congress without finding out some
thing in the way of needed legislation
on the labor question ought to
conclude that he don't fit the place.
A cooperative biscuit and con-
fcctionery factory is talked among
the Knights of Labor of Chatham,
Ont The capital stock will be
exempted from taxation for nine years.
Who shall dare to affirm, in the
name ofjustice, that productive labor
this principal and necessary part of
human life-should be condemned
forever to the anarchy of arbitrary
rule?
Another clergyman has gone
wrong. The pastor of st. Pau's
Nutheran) Church of indianapolis
has called upon its members who be-
long to the Knights of Labor to with
draw from the order or leave the
Church. A majority of the Knights
will adopt the latter course.
The short-hour movement does not,
as many people seem to think, mean
a restriction on individual industry.
1t means that men and women shall
not be compelled to give all their
energy and time to mechanical
drudgery which bring them but a
bare living .-Labos Leader.
A call has been issued from Labor
Headquarters in New York city for
delegates to conference to be held
at Cooper Union, New York city, on
Wednesday, FEBRUARY l6 next, to
consider the state of the movement in
the country at large, and to tale
council together on the future of the
work of organization.
According to Prof Alder, $4,000
children between 10 and Is years of
age are employed at labor in the
State of New York OF these 5000
are in New York city. They are
shippers of tobacco, paper collar
folders, insect powder packers, hair
workers, cash carriers, and workers in
almost every factory occupation.
A party of United Labor, honestly
advocating labor principles, is not a
menance to the country at large, but
the party of united capital whose two
divisions, republican and demo-
cratic, have been for years keeping
up sham warfare whose sole end
and aim has been the distribution of
Offices and perquisitses, is and has been
a serious menance to our institutions.
Under the name of republic we are
actually series of monarchies, whose
kings are the Goulds, the Vanderbilts,
the Armours, the Rockafellars. The
absolute monarchy of such capitalists,
which is anarchy, must be superseded
by a reign of law. Dayton Workman.
For some time past the employees ofthe
various steam railways having their
termini in this city have been vigoro-
usly agitating the question Of forming
trade district of the Knights of
Labor. The idea found such favor
among the railroad men here that it
has now been determined to form
another and larger district, which shall
take in the employees who wish of all
the New England steam railroads.
The new district will probably have a
membership of over 5000 men, all
of whom obtain their living from the
railroads The object of the district
will be to see that the men are fairly
compensated and have reasonable
hours, and it will keepa general over
sight over the welfare Of members.
Meetings will be called in all larger
towns throughout New England where
railways centre, and the district
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